According to the World Health Organization, more than 4.5 billion people are infected with parasites in the world.This is not even the second person, but more than that!
In developing countries, their circulation indicators are much higher than the population of developed countries, which proves the effects of living standards and conditions in the country on these harmful species.Read about the most common among them below.
Bug
Furniture, wallpapers, mattresses - All of these are the favorite habitats of small flat insects, called aphids.They like to live beside people or pets to freely out of shelter at night to fall into warm blood.
These errors are not diseases, but can cause allergic reactions.If the bite is very brushed, an infection can be inserted into the wound.Treat the bite with antiseptic or antihistamine.
Lice
These insects also eat human blood.And contrary to common opinions, they can live not only on their heads, but in general with the whole body.
Taking is the easiest to interact with a person who has had them and fight the help of many different vehicles, including special shampoos.
Scabies
The barrier is caused by ticks through the skin and laying eggs there.And the infection occurs with prolonged contact with the skin's skin.
Symptoms of scabies include itching, sample rash and the formation of a skin on the surface affected by the skin.It is treated with special drugs.
Pork chain
This parasite often enters the human body that is not enough for welding pork, but the transmission may also be exposed to the feces of the infected person or animal.
Parasites affect the intestines and brain, leading to cyst disease - a headache.Depending on the severity of the disease, the treatment is not performed, or the surgical method is used.
The parasite build their lives beside us (and even in us), but we don't doubt this.
Naegleria Fowleri
Naegleria Fowleri is the most popular, most popular amoeba amoeba in Southeast Asia and enters the human body when bathing and water into the nose.
It causes meningitis -raw meningitis - a disease in which the brain is destroyed.Symptoms of the disease: headache, high temperatures, vomiting, confusion, convulsions, balanced weakness and loss of consciousness.At this time, only experimental drugs from such a disease, so survival to it is extremely low.
Roundworms
A group of worms (ascarides, trichinelles, pinworms, etc.).Most of them affect the gut.But a species that causes parasitic trichinellosis in muscles.
Symptoms of infection with such parasites: abdominal pain (Ascarides), blood loss and anemia (hokwoms), itching in the anus (worms), pain, heat, face edema, red eyes, skin (trichinella).
You can get rid of such parasites with the help of drugs recommended by the doctor.
Lamblia intestines
If, after a trip to nature, you start torturing signs such as diarrhea, flatulence, cramps, nausea, then - not to Fortuneteller - this evil parasite probably invaded your body.You may be infected through food and water, as well as through contact with people or animals infected.Fortunately, it is quickly treated and not an expensive medicine.
Trypanosoma
This parasite causes a life -threatening Shagas disease.The disease spreads with a special type of error.Symptoms - heat, fatigue, headache and muscles, rash, loss of appetite, diarrhea, vomiting and edema of the eyelids - are expressed very quickly.
The disease can lead to chronic damage to the heart and intestines.The disease is treated with special drugs.
Cryptosporidiums
These parasites affect the intestines.They spread through contact with people or animals infected.Usually, infection occurs during bathing.Diarrhea caused by cryptosporidiums may last for a long time, but most of it does not need treatment.
Plasmodium Falciparum
These parasites cause malaria are mosquitoes.This type of malaria is considered the most dangerous and causes more deaths than others.
Symptoms similar to the symptoms of the flu - chills, fever, sometimes nausea and vomiting.To set a diagnosis, a laboratory blood test is required.The main thing to remember is - the earlier treatment is started, the more the patient has the opportunity to survive.
Trichomonad
This parasite causes a sexually transmitted disease.Most infected symptoms are absent.But some may feel itching, burning or stimulating in the genital area.The disease is treated with antibiotics.
Dientamoeba fragilis
Doctors still do not know how this parasite affects the colon into the body.In some people, there are no symptoms, others complain about abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Dientamoeba Fragilis is found in all regions of the world.Your doctor may prescribe special drugs for you to fight this microorganism.
Toxoplasm
This parasite feels like at home in meat, water and cats.In humans, Toxoplasma causes a similar name - Toxoplasmosis.And its symptoms are sometimes the same as the flu.
In pregnant women and those who are weak, symptoms may be more serious, for example, with toxoplasmosis, cysts in the muscles, brain and even ... the eyes can be formed.If necessary, drug treatment is prescribed.
Guinean Worm
The disease caused by this parasite (its scientific name - Medinsesis Dracunculus) is not realized in our era - due to the spread of information about prevention measures.The parasite penetrates the human body with the absorption of water, including growing shrimp infected with parasitic larvae.
In the human body, they grow in the intestines, then they move into lymph vessels, and from there they enter the skin and are positioned in the subcutaneous tissue.Among the symptoms that may have heat, edema and pain in the localization of worms.But from the time of infection, to the appearance of the first symptoms, a year may pass.And no treatment.